[BATCH] Scrape your roms on your PC - fastscraper

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf Thank you very much. I truly appreciate it.

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 just download this simple batch and run it on your pc:
fastscraper_debug.bat (batch for direct download)
fastscraper_debug.bat (batch code)
show me the output afterwards.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf Thank you. I will as soon as I get home tonight.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf

Still having the same errors.

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 ok, but that narrows down the problem. Are you sure you can‘t scrape at all? Not detecting the languange shouldn‘t be a problem for the scraping itself as english is chosen then.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf Yes I'm sure. It does exactly what it did before. Still has the registry error and cannot detect language. Wish there was a way to ask these other two gentlemen that figured out the issue to help with the issue. Thank you so very much for trying to figure out the issue.

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 execute this batch and copy paste here the generated output.txt please:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=79263591375427261106

The batch contains only:

@echo off
>output.txt (
	reg Query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop
)

It is very weird that the registry isn¨t found on your computer and that will shed some light.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf off ( reg Query "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop )

[RandySlim76]

@randyslim76 [0_1517298053093_FastScraper (2).bat](Uploading 100%) This is a .bat file that my friend made me and he said he made the .bat file require scraper.exe again by turning off all internet checks. Here is a screen shot of his.

[RandySlim76]

@randyslim76

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 can you please send me the output.txt I asked for?

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf i did it's up there 3 texts back

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 that cannot be. You must have copied the code somehow incorrectly. Please downlod the file and run it.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf [0_1517330780319_output.txt](Uploading 100%)

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 just copy past the output, you can‘t uplod a file here.

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop
    ScreenSaveActive    REG_SZ    1
    ActiveWndTrackTimeout    REG_DWORD    0x0
    BlockSendInputResets    REG_SZ    0
    CaretWidth    REG_DWORD    0x1
    ClickLockTime    REG_DWORD    0x4b0
    CoolSwitchColumns    REG_SZ    7
    CoolSwitchRows    REG_SZ    3
    CursorBlinkRate    REG_SZ    530
    DockMoving    REG_SZ    1
    DragFromMaximize    REG_SZ    1
    DragFullWindows    REG_SZ    1
    DragHeight    REG_SZ    4
    DragWidth    REG_SZ    4
    FocusBorderHeight    REG_DWORD    0x1
    FocusBorderWidth    REG_DWORD    0x1
    FontSmoothing    REG_SZ    2
    FontSmoothingGamma    REG_DWORD    0x0
    FontSmoothingOrientation    REG_DWORD    0x1
    FontSmoothingType    REG_DWORD    0x2
    ForegroundFlashCount    REG_DWORD    0x7
    ForegroundLockTimeout    REG_DWORD    0x30d40
    LeftOverlapChars    REG_SZ    3
    MenuShowDelay    REG_SZ    400
    PaintDesktopVersion    REG_DWORD    0x0
    Pattern    REG_DWORD    0x0
    RightOverlapChars    REG_SZ    3
    SnapSizing    REG_SZ    1
    TileWallpaper    REG_SZ    0
    WallpaperOriginX    REG_DWORD    0x0
    WallpaperOriginY    REG_DWORD    0x0
    WallpaperStyle    REG_SZ    10
    WheelScrollChars    REG_SZ    3
    WheelScrollLines    REG_SZ    3
    WindowArrangementActive    REG_SZ    1
    UserPreferencesMask    REG_BINARY    9E7E068012000000
    Wallpaper    REG_SZ    C:\Users\Randy\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Themes\TranscodedWallpaper.jpg

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\Colors
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\LanguageConfiguration
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\MuiCached

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 ok, now I see the registry key for OS language doesn‘t exist in your pc (no idea why, or it isn‘t where it should be). For my understanding, you don‘t have an usual windows installation. Anyway, I‘ll update fastscraper soon to address this case and let you know.

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 please try the latest version. In your case, set en here:
https://github.com/paradadf/recaltools/blob/master/fastscraper/fastscraper.bat#L11
so you don´t get the that error anymore. The rest should work, hopefully!

[RandySlim76]

@paradadf I will completely understand if you want to quit, but it still gives the registry error. My friend took a look at it and changed something with the internet settings. He thought it wasn't able to send a verification. So I tried his version (which looks very similar to yours. I went through the entire code and only a few things looked different. I didn't receive any errors on his and it looked as if it was going to download everything. It finished with no errors except it didn't make a gamelist.xml or create any folders nor pictures.

Just to describe how it looks, I have the filescraper.bat and scraper.exe side by side in a empty folder next to a folder with 5 gba games. The folder the roms are in is just labeled New Folder. The gba roms are in zip form. During the tests I turned my antivirus off and even turned off my firewall too. Tried it both ways.

Here is his fastscraper
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y5PLgJvpS9hu42gvflNxMqYz-ecDQKTl/view?usp=drivesdk

[paradadf]

@randyslim76 can you please show me what happens when you run the latest version of fastscraper.bat?
If a registry can’t be accessed and assuming you ser the lang to en, the error must come somewhere after. One think though, your rom folders can’t have a space in the name (New Folder doesn’t work, but New_Folder does).
And about the commenting out of the code your friend did, it shouldn’t affect the scrapping itself if you have all files in place.
Are you on a normal windows installation? Don’t you have another pc to try it out?